Re: architecture independent packages and reprepro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/02/15 06:49, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hi, > > Reading > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html, it > says that an architecture of "all" specifies a platform > independent package, of which I have one. But, if I put tha

Re: Upgrading Kernel on VPS - Failed?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/02/15 10:36, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > What does "uname -a" report? This should tell you what the running > kernel version is. > > It could be a case of your providing implementing your Virtual > Private Server using kernel cgroups - e.g. via

Re: USB keyboard required replugging--how to avoid?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/15 02:22, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > The problem is that the new box has hard-to-access USB ports, so in > order to replug the keyboard, I have to remove a panel, so its not > just a quick step. In the event you can't fix it properly (fau

Cheap way to track disk usage?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have an issue with a (client's) large (13T) filesystem, that fills up every now and then and nobody's quite sure what's doing it. I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. df only gives the total for the filesystem, o

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/15 21:09, Johann Spies wrote: > > > > I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. > df only gives the total for the filesystem, of course. > > > Try ncdu. It also takes some time to finish calculating, but the > outp

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/15 23:01, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 03/03/2015 09:22 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> In this case, however, we know there's lots of space used, and

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/15 22:55, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:09:41AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >> >> >> I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. >> df only gives the total for the filesystem, of course. >> >> Try ncdu

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/15 23:17, Richard Hector wrote: > On 03/03/15 22:55, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 10:09:41AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >>> >>> >>> I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a perfo

Re: Cheap way to track disk usage?

On 04/03/15 09:30, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 03 Mar 2015, Jacek Politowski wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 08:29:53PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: I can run du, but that takes ages, and has a performance impact. With "idle" I/O scheduler class (set with ionice) does it still

Re: Fwd: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/15 03:55, Bret Busby wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- From: Bret Busby > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:54:42 +0800 > Subject: Re: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to > squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable

Re: MRTG ERROR

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/15 01:49, Gary Dale wrote: > On 11/03/15 07:40 AM, "Diác. C.J.Moretti" wrote: >> Hello! >> >> A few days to hj'm getting a mail from my server with the >> following error: >> >> >> Cron if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] && [ -r >> /etc/mrtg.cfg ] &&

Re: Making initramfs agree with rootfs about time zone

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Re: Making initramfs agree with rootfs about time zone

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Err, whoops. That wasn't supposed to be encrypted. Not sure how that happened ... Here we go: On 02/04/15 00:21, Richard Hector wrote: > On 01/04/15 11:56, Martin Read wrote: >> I have a dual-boot Win7/Debian jessie system. B

Re: Is anyone else having trouble sending mail from Jessie?

On 29/04/15 19:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2015 01:04:47 Bob Holtzman wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:09:03AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Tuesday 28 April 2015 01:23:41 John J. Boyer wrote: I did not have this problem with Ubuntu. >>> >>> Ubuntu, of course, is the s

Re: Debian jessie netboot ignores preseed?

On 11/05/15 11:33, Stuart Longland wrote: > Hi all, > > Just been trying to test deployment of images using Debian Jessie > via PXE instead of Wheezy. > > We have a preseed script for deploying near-identical builds of > machines for appliances. The script was based off one I initially > wrote f

Re: push db backup from one server to another with cron

On 13/05/15 13:59, Red Henry wrote: > I have a Debian server running PostgreSQL and I want to push a > daily backup from that server to another server. Although I think I > know how many of the pieces work to make this happen I don't know > how to put it all together in a nice Debian way. > > Wher

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/05/15 20:53, Lisi Reisz wrote: > I object to your language. Both the swearing and the constant > unwarranted use of the word malicious. The swearing is against the code of conduct of the list, even. https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeo

Re: Where is samterm for sam text editor?

On 14/07/15 04:10, yutaka sugawara wrote: > Where is samterm for sam text editor? > > I use debian 8. I installed 9base package and I could find sam > text editor. But I could not find samterm. http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1101/6651.html http://tools.suckless.org/9base Looks like you'd have to

Re: command not found

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/12/15 13:52, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 05:37:23PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: >> On 15/12/15 05:02 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: >>> Running Wheezy (7.9) on a reinstall after launching Jessie thru >>> a wall. Reinstalled all my s/w in

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/01/16 07:05, Martin Read wrote: > On 01/01/16 17:47, Ric Moore wrote: >> On 01/01/2016 11:23 AM, pe...@berghold.net wrote: >>> I'm confused what specifically is meriting censorship? >> >> I'm not seeing any full frontal nudity. Ric > > An ima

Re: wget log from Jigdo

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/01/16 05:10, Steve Matzura wrote: >>> Glad that you got it going. That default of sound being set to >>> 0 or muted by default is annoying even if one has some sight. >>> It must be maddening and incomprehensible if you haven't! The >>> ratio

Re: Restrict apt to specific Jessie distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/02/16 00:12, Brendan Simon wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to restrict apt to a **specific release** of Jessie. > e.g. 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, ... ?? > > I build root filesystems for embedded systems. The sources.list is > set to Jessie, but the con

Re: Debian security: need recipe for blocking root ssh access AND all ssh password access

On 18/02/16 11:02, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: >>> I do agree locking the root password isn't advisable. As I use >>> >> configuration management/automation to handle my servers I simply set the >>> >> root password to generated password that only I know the algorithm to >>> >> reproduce it when I n

Re: Debian security: need recipe for blocking root ssh access AND all ssh password access

[Please don't cc me; I'm on the list] On 19/02/16 11:05, Roman wrote: > 2016-02-18 22:30 GMT+02:00 Richard Hector <mailto:rich...@walnut.gen.nz>>: > > > > I think a better solution in the end is to generate a random password > for each box, and lea

Re-exec dhclient without stopping network?

Anyone know if/how I can restart dhclient without stopping the network? It's the only process left holding open the old libc after the upgrade, and I'd rather avoid restarting the network (or rebooting), since I'm working remotely. This is on a wheezy box. It shouldn't be using dhcp, really, but

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

On 24/02/16 07:52, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Christian Seiler a écrit : >> > You have _emphasized_ it, but you haven't _explained_ it, nor provided >> > any search term one could use to look up an explanation for it. > Explaining takes time, I do not want to do it if

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

On 24/02/16 22:50, Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 6 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Richard Hector a écrit : >> Fair enough. Got a link to someone else's explanation? > > Sorry, I do not. But I gave a rather lengthy explanation myself in > the part you trimmed. Oh, ok. I assumed

Re: Re-exec dhclient without stopping network?

On 24/02/16 22:13, Reco wrote: > ... > pkill -9 -f dhclient > ifup --force eth0 > sleep 1800 > reboot > > If all goes well you would be able to re-attach to a existing screen > session, and cancel the reboot. > If anything goes wrong - you'll have your host alive and kicking after > 30 minutes of

Re: aptitude program list

On 25/02/16 09:18, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Better generate such a list with aptitude itself which allows to > exclude automatically installed packages > > aptitude -F "%p" '~i!~M' > list_of_packages_manually_installed Or perhaps aptitude search -F "%p" '~i!~M' > list_of_packages_manually_in

Re: Encrypted PDF isn't

On 25/02/16 18:23, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 24 Feb 2016 at 23:10:42 (+), Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Wednesday 24 February 2016 21:16:46 David Wright wrote: > encrypted.pdf >>> >>> No, sadly it is not! >>> >>> Sorry, David. ;-) > Well it turns out that the problem has affected other peop

Re: XFS on root

On 02/03/16 00:33, Adam Wilson wrote: >> "As we all know, you cannot install grub into an XFS partition because >> > the XFS superblock is in sector 0 of the partition." > I'm pretty sure this only holds true for LILO now, according to the > official XFS FAQ > (http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_D

Re: XFS on root

On 02/03/16 20:37, jdd wrote: > Le 02/03/2016 03:10, Richard Hector a écrit : > >> I think that's two different things. The "cannot install grub >> into an XFS partition" quote is about where grub lives - normally >> in the MBR, but possibly in a partit

Re: Installing newer kernels

On 19/03/16 09:06, David Wright wrote: >>> I'm currently using manual procedures and home-grown scripts. >>> The next step up would be a deployment/ management automation >>> tool such as Puppet: >>> >>> https://puppetlabs.com/ > I can get a lot of hardware for $3000! Puppet Enterprise is $3000.

Re: Throughput riddle

On 19/03/16 15:07, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/18/2016 06:47 PM, Richard Hector wrote: >> On 19/03/16 14:01, David Christensen wrote: >>> I use category 5E cables for Gigabit. Category 5 and category >>> 6 cables were not reliable for me. >> >> Cat 5

Re: Throughput riddle

On 19/03/16 14:01, David Christensen wrote: > I use category 5E cables for Gigabit. Category 5 and category 6 > cables were not reliable for me. Cat 5 cables _should_ work, in theory, though I gather some don't work so well. If you have any cat5 or better cables that are unreliable, I'd suspect t

Re: Linux CLI gnuplot-ish program to do maps?

On 21/03/16 12:14, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Is there a Linux CLI gnuplot-ish program to do maps? > > For example, one puts in a file that one wants a black and white > PNG not bigger than some size, showing the Pacific Ocean including > Hawaii and Easter Island? > I think gmt (Generic Mapping Tools

Re: Sudo

On 21/03/16 17:30, Michael Milliman wrote: > On the other hand, I use both su and sudo. If I have a protracted > session with several different tasks that I need to complete all > requiring root access I su to the root user. If on the other hand, I > only need to perform a single command, or so,

Re: Sudo

On 22/03/16 05:29, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:00:13 -0500 > Michael Milliman wrote: > >> On 03/21/2016 12:22 AM, Wolf Halton wrote: >>> Sudo -i opens a session as root with environment as if you did su - >>> except your non-root admin user doesn't have to know the root pass

Re: Sudo

On 21/03/16 21:35, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 09:45:32PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > [...] > >> On the other hand, if I need to be some other user, like the postgres >> user, I use "sudo su postgres". There are probably better ways

Re: Package Maintainers Copies

On 06/04/16 09:13, Darko Gavrilovic wrote: > Hello, I just did a Squeeze to Jessie upgrade. > > Is there a place where apt keeps the package maintainers versions of the > .conf files to which I answered N to? IIRC they're generally in the same directory as the actual file, with an extension like

lxc, systemd and getty

Hi all, I'm just getting into lxc, and, I guess like most, I'm also fairly new to systemd. I'm using the standard jessie template to create my containers, and they come up working, but a little misconfigured - they only have tty1 - tty4, but try to start getty on tty5 and tty6 as well, giving me

Re: lxc, systemd and getty

On 16/04/16 03:29, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm just getting into lxc, and, I guess like most, I'm also fairly > new to systemd. > > I'm using the standard jessie template to create my containers, > and they come up working, but a little misconfi

Re: Posting picture files

On 02/05/16 03:57, Gene Heskett wrote: > So I'd like to prose a compromise that recognizes the folks still > on dialup and at dialup speeds. Possibly paying by the minute for > access. > > Accept the attachment, but strip it from the message that goes > back out to the list and store it on paste

Re: Stretch vim doesnt cut and paste

On 21/08/17 05:31, Reco wrote: > In jessie and before that one could put needed customizations > into /etc/vim/vimrc (and it works as of stretch) > or into /etc/vim/vimrc.local (and it's ignored in stretch). Looking at a stretch box (installed clean, not upgraded), /etc/vim/vimrc has this at the b

Re: getting mail from Exchange/Outlook

On 14/09/17 07:32, Steve Kleene wrote: > My employer is forcing me to shut down my long-time Linux mail server. I > have no choice in the matter. > > My employer uses Microsoft Exchange/Outlook for mail. They have an Outlook > Web App (OWA) that I can access from Firefox, but as far as I can tel

Face header and Thunderbird (was: Re: LibreOffice, missing bits)

Hi all, Apologies for the thread hijack, but this issue does relate to Brad's message ... When I read email from Brad Rogers and a few others, they contain a 'face' header (different from X-Face, which is also there). For whatever reason, Thunderbird always displays this header in the 'Normal' v

Re: Face header and Thunderbird

On 15/09/17 20:23, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > Richard Hector, Fr 15 Sep 2017 04:44:41 CEST: > >> When I read email from Brad Rogers and a few others, they contain a >> 'face' header (different from X-Face, which is also there). >> >> For whatever reason, Th

Re: Face header and Thunderbird

On 15/09/17 17:50, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙) wrote: > I read your thought. If so, you would be better to change mail program > for support Face and X-Face headers. How about Gnus [1]? Given I haven't used emacs for about 15 years, I think that might be a bit drastic :-) Also, would it handle my

Pidgin/XMPP SSL

Hi all, I use pidgin with XMPP (prosody on the server). Pidgin is the Jessie version (2.11.0) My server doesn't have the same hostname as my XMPP id domain, and I haven't (yet) set up srv records, so I have the Advanced->Connect server option set to the hostname of my server. Prosody is configur

Re: Can't find the DNS Servers

On 26/09/17 19:50, Reco wrote: > Please post these things from the problematic PC: > > ip a l > > ip ro l Can I make a request? When giving example commands, can you give them in full, rather than abbreviated? I believe 'a' and 'ro' are 'address' and 'route' respectively, but 'l' is a bit harde

Re: removing of sddm (debian 9 -kde5) to start in console mode then startx to start kde5

On 18/10/17 06:56, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 06:42:04PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 17 Oct 2017 at 11:38:40 -0500, David Wright wrote: >>> On Tue 17 Oct 2017 at 19:32:11 (+0500), Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Deprecated doesn't mean it doesn't exist or work anymore at al

Re: sources.list

On 20/10/17 05:12, don magnify wrote: > thanks...  i did. same result...  is there any particular src endpoint > directly affecting the "build-dep python-imaging --fix-missing" > commands/flags? > > thanks...  > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Steve Kemp > wrote: >

Re: way of starting a firewall script in debian 9 with kde5 and sddm

On 18/10/17 01:25, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 18/10/17 01:08, Stephane L wrote: >> Hi,I have a firewall script(firewall) that I laucnh with > start>Is there a way in debian 9 (with kde5 and sddm) to start this >> script at the boot of the linux system or at the launching of xorg or >> of kde5 ?

Re: Serial Ports and Perl

On 27/10/17 15:38, Martin McCormick wrote: > A perldoc of Device::SerialPort says that lookfor is > supposed to block or hold until a character string emerges from > the port as in /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyS1. When I trace the > code, it just loops as fast as it can and never holds to wait fo

Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

On 30/10/17 15:46, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 08:28:46 -0400 > The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2017-10-29 at 07:49, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> >>> Celejar wrote on 10/24/17 15:09: >>> On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:52:46 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I forgot that you showed

Re: Rsync

On 06/11/17 14:22, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2017-11-05 at 20:16, David Wright wrote: > >> As for MC, it's in the population of programs that I would never run >> as root, along with X, Emacs, …Office, browsers, media players (does >> that cover it?). Root does not need Swiss Army knives slashing

Re: How to compile color database?

On 09/11/17 11:41, Fred wrote: > Hello, > > After editing /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt what program needs to run to > recompile the color database? > > According to google it should be rgb < rgb.txt but the rgb program is > nowhere to be found. Is it necessary? An old manpage for xorg.conf: ftp://www

Re: Need Help restoring a filesystem on an external drive WD 'My Book'

On 26/11/17 22:37, bd wrote: > This drive no longer mounts FWIW, my WD external drive stopped mounting. I opened the case (with difficulty, and possibly breakage, IIRC) removed the drive, and used it as a normal SATA drive. Still working fine, all the data was there. This may be completely unrela

Re: Firefox freezing

On 30/11/17 16:11, Noah Duffy wrote: > Not sure what you've done before, but you can try deleting your profile and > settings for Firefox. There is a hidden folder in your home directory > (.mozilla). Try deleting that. ... or just move it, so you can put it back if it didn't help, and not lose

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

On 04/12/17 09:43, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/03/2017 09:13 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> On 12/03/2017 07:35 AM, Tom Furie wrote: >>> [snip] >>> >>> If you want "off the shelf", the closest that immediately comes to >>> mind is something like a Microsoft Surface or similar. >> >> Quick web searc

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

On 06/12/17 23:46, Dan Purgert wrote: > Eric S Fraga wrote: >> --=-=-= >> Content-Type: text/plain >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >> On Tuesday, 5 Dec 2017 at 14:53, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> [...] > >>> I've seen the term "RSS", but never had any contact with it. Not sure >>

Filter logcheck reboot messages?

Hi all, I'm generally a happy user of logcheck, but it makes a lot of noise at boot time, from kernel messages and startup scripts. There are two problems with this: Firstly, it's a lot of work to go through and create filters for just me - I started once, and gave up. Secondly, I don't actually

Re: Filter logcheck reboot messages?

On 08/12/17 16:55, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm generally a happy user of logcheck, but it makes a lot of noise at > boot time, from kernel messages and startup scripts. > > There are two problems with this: Firstly, it's a lot of work to go > through

Re: Filter logcheck reboot messages?

On 10/12/17 04:01, Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 09.12.2017 15:37, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Richard Hector wrote: >> >>> Nobody else uses logcheck? Everyone is fine with how it works? >> >> I use logcheck on all systems and I see no need to change it. In fact, I >>

Re: Rust? (and a wordsmithing question)

On 13/12/17 06:09, Curt wrote: > On 2017-12-12, wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 08:24:39AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> McGill MUSIC still exists, actually. >>> >>> http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/group3/dedwar1/web/msi/musicsp.htm >> Thanks for the link :-) > The Sim390

Re: can't find spamhaus (very possibly OT)

On 18/12/17 02:10, Dan Purgert wrote: > Thomas Amm wrote: >> Seems not related to IPv6 or dual stack: > >> [...] [ xbl.spamhaus.org has no A record ] > > Indeed, it resulted the same for me. Perhaps they (or their DNS > provider) goofed something. DDG doesn't show anything that it's been > di

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

On 21/12/17 02:02, Curt wrote: > Also, I'm uncertain whether suppression of the asterisk-echo qualifies > as "security by obscurity" I think most people accept that obscurity is quite reasonable for passwords ... Richard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

On 21/12/17 22:16, Curt wrote: > On 2017-12-20, Richard Hector wrote: >> >> On 21/12/17 02:02, Curt wrote: >>> Also, I'm uncertain whether suppression of the asterisk-echo qualifies >>> as "security by obscurity" >> >> I think most peopl

Re: port scans (OT?)

On 23/12/17 10:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Also cool: If file sharers show up, then keep one on hold until a second > one calls. Then forward their requests to the respective other one. > Two revenges taken for the price of one. So you're acting as a proxy? Does that mean that all files transferre

Re: Saving Sent Messages with Thunderbird

On 29/12/17 05:37, Dan Purgert wrote: > I believe + works for most any menubar > > - (F)ile > - (V)iew > - (E)dit > - (H)elp > - etc... That's been true for a long time. Generally the significant letter is underlined. It certainly worked on MS Works 2.0 (for DOS). > If the window / program

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

On 03/01/18 07:30, Brian wrote: >> Michael Stone wrote: There is nothing a user can do to *prevent* himself from destroying his own files, >> Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> Actually, there is. It's called making a backup. >> This is a very good point. > What *prevents* a user from destroying

Re: GRUB and boot partition

On 06/01/18 03:56, Gary Dale wrote: > One once-popular code was to replace all words in a message with 2 > numbers each, referring to a page & word number within an agreed-upon > book. If you used it electronically, you could send a binary file where > each original word was reduced to 2 bytes. Th

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

On 03/01/18 14:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > ... so > used to winslow ... ... > Will it actually happen? Chances are I'd have better results offering a > bridge in Sun City AZ for sale... Is someone used to Winslow likely to be confused in Sun City? (I've never been to either (or, within my memor

bsd-mailx incompatibility?

Hi all, Some time between lenny and squeeze (and before lucid, but I haven't searched further), mail changed its arguments. lenny: -e Don't send empty mails. If the body is empty skip the mail. squeeze/lucid: -E Don't send messages with an empty body. .. and -e is gone. I looked in

Fwd: Re: bsd-mailx incompatibility?

Oops. This was supposed to go to the list, sorry. On 30/12/11 15:33, Bob Proulx wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: >> Some time between lenny and squeeze (and before lucid, but I haven't >> searched further), mail changed its arguments. >> > Apparently -e was a Debian

Re: Fwd: Re: bsd-mailx incompatibility?

On 31/12/11 16:12, Richard Hector wrote: > Oops. This was supposed to go to the list, sorry. And that should have been a reply. I'll learn to drive my MUA one day ... Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

On 01/01/12 10:29, Carl Fink wrote: > I hope everyone has a great new year. > > According to this page: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd.html > > the xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd package was removed from Testing on February > 8, 2011 ... and never put back. Um, why? >

Re: X Window: Setting up mouse scroll for OOo Calc to one raw

On 02/01/12 05:02, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:01:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >> Anyway, I still think this is the job for Xorg, not LO or other >> application. >> >> P.S. I'm still looking for a solution on how to get the wheel srolls >> more that a few of lines... seems g

Re: sbin

On 02/01/12 07:19, Chris Brennan wrote: > > Typically /bin is reserved for binaries executable by everyone on the > system, > whereas /sbin is *typically* reserved for binaries that are executable by > root > only, most of these would typically have the SETUID bit set for root as > well, > to fur

Re: radeonhd removed from Testing ... in February, still gone?

On 02/01/12 07:59, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 06:36:30PM +, Camale?n wrote: > >>> What firmware package? >> >> Some ATI cards need "firmware-linux-nonfree" package to enable 3D >> acceleration: > > I figured that out, but installing it had no effect. And if it's required > WH

Re: ~/.profile

On 02/01/12 10:30, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > >> ... executed with /bin/sh which is not bash by default. > > Understood; but why does the installer put these and no .dashrc? The shell you run interactively (specified per-user in /etc/passwd) is usually bash, because it's more friendly for int

Re: incrontab usage

On 02/01/12 12:45, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Moving on to more constructive efforts ... > > peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l > /home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch ~/indicator 2>&1 > > Then according to my thinking, sending a fresh copy of test > to Joule using FTP, should trigger "touch ~/indicator".

Re: X Window: Setting up mouse scroll for OOo Calc to one raw

On 03/01/12 04:55, Camaleón wrote: > But the best thing is that there is a patch already done for having the > "feature" implemented at Xorg. I haven't re-read the bug report, but my impression was that someone has written a patch, but it hasn't been accepted, and there was dispute about it, so t

Re: Re (2): incrontab usage

On 03/01/12 11:12, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > The 2nd problem is more subtle. > peter@joule:~$ incrontab -l > /home/peter/test IN_MODIFY touch /home/peter/indicator 2>&1 > gives > root@joule:/etc# /usr/sbin/incrond -nf /etc/incron.conf > touch: cannot touch `2>&1': Permission denied > touch: ca

Re: Order of cron.daily jobs

On 06/01/12 03:31, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-01-04 16:59:27 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:18:35 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> The point is that the behavior can depend on the locales. To avoid that, >>> users should use only lowercase letters for the name of these scri

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

On 06/01/12 06:57, Rick Thomas wrote: > > A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network > can still limp along. > > Anyway, that's the theory. My understanding is that you need to have some sort of failover setup - so the secondary dhcp server only starts working (respon

Re: packaging and archive management

On 08/01/12 06:26, andy baxter wrote: > On 27/12/11 15:34, andy baxter wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have volunteered to do a bit of work for a small free software >> project (https://buddycloud.org), packaging the different parts of >> their system. This will initially be for debian but possibly for ot

Re: rt kernel and nouveau

On 22/03/12 23:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 3/22/2012 3:27 AM, daniel jimenez wrote: >> I'm using my computer as a guitar effects processor for real time audio, >> It's meant to be used in group performance so delays are kind of a big deal. >> >> I changed the 'Driver' entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

On 27/03/12 19:38, Johan Grönqvist wrote: > Debian 7 is expected to be frozen this summer, And here was me thinking it would be this winter. Hint: This is an international list. Seasons aren't good for international representation of dates :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: OT: change of mail provider

On 02/04/12 02:24, Camaleón wrote: > What I want to avoid is Google getting too deep into my life. Agreed. The most significant step for me (for getting off my ISP address; I've never used gmail) was getting my own domain. And I currently lease a VM to run my MTA (postfix/dovecot) - shared with a

Re: ibm server black screen console

On 06/04/12 16:59, Joey L wrote: > hi - just tried the setting "video=radeon:off" -- did not work You haven't got it set to use a (virtual?) serial port for the console, instead of the video card? Perhaps after installing via the IMM? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: ibm server black screen console

On 06/04/12 23:25, Joey L wrote: > You - know I think you might be on to something, because I do not get > any major errors. > And when I start the gdm3 - it starts up perfect. > I think there is the IBM RSA board --- do you think the output is going there > ? > I did not do anything strange to th

Re: ibm server black screen console

On 14/04/12 00:20, Joey L wrote: > None of these revealed anything of use to me. > Have you or anyone else used debian on the IBM x3650 ? > With the RSA board ?? I really feel that the console is being sent to > that board and not to the regular vga port. > Just have no way of confirming this. Can

Re: How do Install debian kernel without updating to latest kernel image

On 19/04/12 15:27, sarveshwar.ba...@emulex.com wrote: I am trying to install different versions of Debian from Debian install CDs. For example Debian 6.0.0, 6.0.3 and 6.0.4. After installing any of CDs I see the debian_version is showing as 6.0.4. The uname –a shows the same after any of the inst

Re: Is 1600x1200 screen better than 1440x900?

On 25/04/12 08:02, Gary Dale wrote: > 1440 x 900 is a standard 16:9 ratio Sorry, that just jumps out at me, and I can't ignore it :-) 1600 x 900 is 16:9; 1440 x 900 is clearly 14.4:9, or 16:10. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Configure sudo

On 26/05/12 01:43, Tom H wrote: >> * apt-get install but not remove > > IMO this is possible by setting whole command "apt-get options *" in > sudoers, but i never tried this. I have on one my server this: > > User_AliasEJABBER = snmp, www-data > ... > EJABBER ALL=(ejabberd) NOPASSWD:

dovecot imap: folder location problems

Hi all, I decided to investigate my Maildir layout a bit more closely, because I thought it was causing problems for K9 Mail on my Android phone. Turns out it wasn't, really, but never mind. I discovered that perhaps I should have migrated my Maildir from courier to dovecot, rather than just

[solved] Re: dovecot imap: folder location problems

On 27/05/12 17:36, Richard Hector wrote: ... As a result, I decided to rename all my folders to not have the ".INBOX" prefix on them. That, I think, was a mistake. I was looking here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Courier Specifically, under the 'Manual Conversion'

Re: how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

On 31/05/12 17:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:04 PM, a0z wrote: >> On 31/05/12 04:43, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> I've tried every variation I can think of. >>> >> >> Have you tried "apt-cache search"? >> >> >> a0z@kit:~$ apt-cache search linux 3.2 amd64 >> linux-headers-3.2.0-2-

Re: linux-vserver (or equvalent) in wheezy

On 08/06/12 08:58, Darren Baginski wrote: 07.06.2012, 23:45, "Adrian Fita": I think that would be Linux Containers (LXC): http://wiki.debian.org/LXC. Looks promising. Is there any infrastructure around yet? I mean init scripts for auto start , /etc/ files like the same for linux-vserver ?

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